A Southern Lady & Diarist! In my previous post of Pioneering Women of Civil War America (Thirteenth Installment) about Phoebe Yates Levy Pember, I promised I’d feature another woman of Civil War times who was “A Southern Lady & Diarist.” Let me now present to you: Mary Boykin Miller Chestnut (1823 – 1886) Same as my […]
Pioneering Women of Civil War America (Thirteenth Installment)
A Southern Woman with a Calling! In my previous post of Pioneering Women of Civil War America (Twelfth Installment) about Rose O’Neal Greenhow, I promised I’d feature another lady of Civil War times who was “A Southern Woman with a Calling.” Let me now present to you: Phoebe Yates Levy Pember (1823 – 1913) Phoebe […]
Pioneering Women of Civil War America (Twelfth Installment)
A Southern Lady & Rebel Spy! In my previous posts of Pioneering Women of Civil War America (Eleventh Installment, Part A) and Pioneering Women of Civil War America (Eleventh Installment, Part B) about Elizabeth “Miss Lizzie” Van Lew, I promised I’d feature another woman of Civil War times who was “A Southern Lady & Rebel […]
Pioneering Women of Civil War America (Eleventh Installment, Part B)
Insanely Sane & Steeped in Subterfuge! In my previous post of Pioneering Women of Civil War America (Eleventh Installment, Part A) about great Union spymaster. . . Elizabeth “Miss Lizzie” Van Lew (1818-1900) . . .I left off with a teaser about the most incredulous feat of Miss Lizzie and her spy ring. It […]
Pioneering Women of Civil War America (Eleventh Installment, Part A)
Insanely Sane & Steeped in Subterfuge! In my previous post of Pioneering Women of Civil War America (Tenth Installment) about Katharine Prescott Wormeley, I promised I’d feature another woman of Civil War times who was “Insanely Sane & Steeped in Subterfuge!” How’s that for good alliteration? Anyway, let me now present to you: Elizabeth […]
Pioneering Women of Civil War America (Tenth Installment)
Mover & Shaker! In my previous post of Pioneering Women of Civil War America (Ninth Installment) about Clara Barton, I promised I would feature another woman of Civil War times who was a “Mover & Shaker!” Let me now present to you: Katharine Prescott Wormeley (1830-1908) At the outset of the American Civil War (1861), […]
Pioneering Women of Civil War America (Ninth Installment)
True-Blue Patriot & Humanitarian! In my previous post of Pioneering Women of Civil War America (Eighth Installment) on Antoinette Brown Blackwell, I promised that my next pioneering woman would be one well known to the world, but maybe not for some of her pioneering deeds. Let me now present to you: Clarissa “Clara” Harlowe Barton […]
Pioneering Women of Civil War America (Eighth Installment)
Ordained! I promised in my previous post of Pioneering Women of Civil War America (Seventh Installment) about Doctors Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell and Lydia Folger Fowler that I would feature a woman who was closely connected to the Blackwell sisters. Allow me to introduce you to their sister-in-law: Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825-1921) In 1851, Antoinette […]
Pioneering Women of Civil War America (Seventh Installment)
Daring Doctors! Speaking of Dr. Mary Edwards Walker from my previous post of Pioneering Women of Civil War America (Sixth Installment), I cannot neglect other women doctors who accomplished great things in the medical field. Although I will only discuss them briefly here, they have nevertheless been giants in the advancement of women in medicine […]
Pioneering Women of Civil War America (Sixth Installment)
One Feisty & Freethinking Woman! In my previous post of Pioneering Women of Civil War America (Fifth Installment) on Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, I promised that my next pioneering woman would be a savvy, freethinking, and feisty one! Let me now present to you: Dr. Mary Edwards Walker I will address her […]